Colorful wallflower?
07/08/2023
There are cars that have been built dozens of times and yet they are constantly featured on front pages and in articles. And there are cars that have been built hundreds of thousands of times, were popularly bought and driven at the time and yet are almost forgotten to this day.
One example of this is the Fiat 132, of which we recently had the pleasure of photographing a very well-preserved example from 1976 in the fantastic "verde brillante" color. We are currently researching the history of the model. It turns out that the car has been written about quite frequently over the years, various individual and comparative tests have been published and every model change has been diligently reported on.
In modern classic car literature, however, the Fiat 132 seems to be practically non-existent. There is hardly an article about it. Carefully researched production figures for the various series? Not a thing. Buying advice? Not a thing.
Is the Fiat 132 not "sexy" enough for the modern classic car journalist or have simply too few examples survived? We don't know the reason for the lack of interest, but we certainly liked the 132 and were thoroughly impressed by it.
P.S. If any of our readers know more about the production history of the Fiat 132 than the Italian Wikipedia (we are particularly looking for exact production volumes of the individual series), we would be happy to receive additional information.
